coagulating

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  1. transitive verb To cause transformation of (a liquid or sol, for example) into or as if into a soft, semisolid, or solid mass.
  2. intransitive verb To become coagulated.
  3. Syntax Note
    Synonyms: coagulate, clot, congeal, curdle, jell, jelly, set1
    These verbs mean to change or be changed from a liquid into a thickened mass: egg white coagulating when heated; blood clotting over the wound; gravy congealing as it cools; milk that had curdled; used pectin to jell the jam; jellied consommé; allowed the aspic to set.

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  • Ond mounted Jeff's bike and disappeared from the view of the still-coagulating lynch-mob, cutting through the exact right dark alleys to avoid the pursuing cars, though not quite able to elude the dragonfly cameras Alone on the dark side-streets of San Jose, Ond asked the orphids to disable all the dragonfly cameras following him. —  Asimov's SF, September 2006
  • Instead they posit some incredibly silly hypotheses about coagulating mud crystals, becoming by random chance, the progenitors of DNA, or else they shrug their shoulders and assume that the world had no beginning, that it has always been as it is. —  magic-city-news.com
  • The Sun investigates the potent and largely experimental blood-coagulating drug known as Recombinant Activated Factor VII. —  Blog updates
  • "Des Pas Sur La Neige" ( "Footprints in the Snow") marks the somber progress of a four-note pattern, assembling and drifting apart -- the progress of a cloud, or a coagulating thought (see score below). —  Locust St.
  • Ozone is undoubtedly generated by the flashes, and may have a beneficial effect, but the dust-coagulating and dust-expelling power of the electricity has a much more rapid effect, though it may not act till the cloud is discharged. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884
 

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